The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-08


not" she said, emphasizing the words
with artless sincerity. 81 could be
quite happy in such II home as tins
by your side. But you were made
for lofty position, you were born to
rule. Think, then, how useful
my large fortune will be to
you. II, indeed, it is a bet
ter religion, higher truth that
you now follow, you may be
the means OF persuading many.
have planned it all. We will build a
beautiful Protestant church in Paris;
from far and wide people will flock to
hear you. Once more you will be in
your proper sphere, for am sure you
cannot be happy or quite satisfied
here. This career oil a country pastor
is too narrow, too circumscribed, for
a nature like yours"
He bowed acquiescingly. Yes, it
was all true. So mach his face said.
"All that have is yours" she went
on; "the vast fortune my father left
me, the hotel in Paris, the chateau in
Touraine, these are as dross TO me,
and all careior, live for, Is this
The clear impassioned voice broke
down; the iair head drooped the hand
she held to her heart was kissed and
believed with tears.
Throughout the latter part OF their
interview the pastor had seemed un-
der spell. Once or twice he was fain
to interrupt, but utterance failed him.
He, too, was flushed. fearful, shaken
in every limb. Those last wild words,
those burning tears and kisses on his
hand, broke the charm and recalled
him to realities. He rose now and
for moment stood over her with n
strange expression, as il he were call
ing down the blessings OF heaven up
on her fair head; as if, indeed, he were
shrinking from some angelic vision,
that reproved his own iaultiness and
mortality. Then, without word, he
,, led her to the window.
/ 1t looked upon the long narrow gar
den stretching from the house and lit
| tie church, now flooded with warm
sunshine. All was calm, golden, peace
full; yet Georgette gazed with
sudden, unexplained sinking
OF the heart. At the farther end, un-
der the shadow OF lofty palm tree,
was deal table, and by it stood n
patient faced woman, evidently be-
longing to the peasant class, busily
ironing. Homely as was her appear
ance, it was nevertheless, not without
a cert ain dignity and pathos. She
looked so absorbed in the business OF
ironing, so forgetful OF self, so lost to
a sense OF everything but the matter
OF tact, prosaic task before her.
"You eeyonder poor good woman, "
the pastor said, as the pair thus
watched the unconscious figure from
the window. "Iloved another, whose
story you have just told. But the
first act OF my new life, and newly
awakened conscience. was to atone to
her had wronged in my youth
And romance had now surely knock
ed at that parsonage door for the
first and last time. With burning tears
a hand clasp, a whispered word, and
one long, lingering gaze into each 9th
er's eyes, the two parted. Who shall
say ever to meet again? t,L, "
Strange as it would seepi at first
sight, this Hateful meeting ,little affect
ed the tenor OF their outward lives. III
was as if all the daring, albthe herpislh
all the force OF these two CHARACTER.
had been already spent; IbylGeoJgettC
de Beaumont upone the q initptlv'
had been the one truly fine act of hel
life; by the pastor upon the two!fold
sacrifice made for conscience sakep H.
had suddenly found himself 1at gtht
parting OF the ways; on theg one hand
beckoning worldly fortune thu es
TEEN OF the great, o. .qommand
ing social position; on the othei
poverty, scorn, an abnormal comb
ton, but, coupled, With. thete, san
science at resti ffhencamethe second
choice. He might make material
atonements- to thepeasant girl he had
wronged years before. He might then,
having dismissed this, Subject OF sell
reproach, think of the fireside happl
ntssno loneef denied .,hiip,lgnd even
,lideami oi 'Georgettes 1.-The nbeautimI
d dGaorgettelbl no OF TAin9og sgsgo .,
j once the straight path 4 AIKEN, the
tempting traveste @stsight nj tprevef'
he seemed to lose all ambition, alien
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